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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

New Release: Outlaw Hearts by Rosanne Bittner

Outlaw Hearts by Rosanne Bittner is back in print for the first time in over twenty years! To celebrate, the hero and heroine, Jake Harkner and Miranda Hayes, are here for a quick Q&A:

Complete this
sentence:I knew I had found the love of
my life when…

Jake: When she
shot me!

Miranda: When he
searched for me after he first rode out of my life. He found me dying from a
snake bite, and he nursed me back to life and was gentle and respectful and
made me feel so safe.

An Excerpt:

Miranda watched Jake saddle up while she held the two gunnysacks
full of supplies she had prepared for him. He gave Outlaw’s stomach a light
punch.

“Suck it in, boy,” he barked. “You don’t fool me, filling yourself up
with air like that.” The horse’s belly contracted, and Jake tightened the
cinch. “All I need is to be on a hard ride to get away from some marshal only
to have my saddle slip on me.”

Miranda saw him wince, knew he
was still in pain. “Jake, can’t you wait one more day?”

Jake kept
his eyes on the cinch, thinking about the restless night he had had, lying
awake and wondering what Mrs. Miranda Hayes would have done if he had gone out
to her cot and planted his mouth on her sweet lips.

“No, ma’am. Too dangerous
for you having me here, what with that sheriff sweet on you and all. Hard
telling when he might show up again.” He let down a stirrup and turned to meet
her eyes.

Was that a trace of tears he saw there? No. He would not believe
that.

“If you had any common sense at all, you would stay here and marry the
sheriff and let him take care of you.”

Miranda
stiffened with indignation, glad he had said something that made her
momentarily forget about wanting to cry.

“Why do all men think a woman needs
‘taking care of’? I’ll be just fine on my own. And if I did have common sense,
you would be sitting in prison or hanging from a tree by now, and I would be
five thousand dollars richer.”

Jake
grinned. “You’ve got me there.”

Miranda thought how he looked
even more handsome now in the morning light. It was the best he had looked
since the first day she saw him in the supply store, bearded and mean-looking,
then so sick after that. He had a fine, square jaw and dark, wide-set eyes that
were perfectly outlined with dark eyelashes.

Even his nose seemed perfectly
matched to the rest of his face, and when he smiled, his teeth were straight
and clean. She surmised that in spite of his cruelty, Jake’s father must have been
as handsome as his mother was beautiful, for they had produced a son that was
the best of both. How sad that they had never given that son a decent home.

A faint scar on Jake’s left jaw and
another tiny one on his upper lip only seemed to make him even more handsome,
lending a ruggedness to his looks that was accented by his tall frame and broad
shoulders. She found herself wondering how his full, firm lips would feel on
her mouth, how a man like Jake Harkner kissed a woman…”

Title: Outlaw Hearts

Author: Rosanne
Bittner

Series: Outlaw
Hearts, #1

Pubdate: June 2nd,
2015

ISBN: 9781492612810

United by
chance, bound by fate, consumed by passion.

Miranda Hayes has lost everything—her family, her husband, her home.
Orphaned and then widowed, desperate to find a safe haven, she sets out to
cross a savage land alone…until chance brings her face-to-face with notorious
gunslinger Jake Harkner.

Hunted by the law and haunted by a brutal past, Jake has spent a lifetime
fighting for everything he has. He’s never known a moment’s kindness…until fate
brings him to the one woman willing to reach past his harsh exterior to the man
inside. He would die for her. He would kill for her. He will do whatever it
takes to keep her his.

Spanning the dazzling West with its blazing deserts and booming gold
towns, Jake and Miranda must struggle to endure every hardship that threatens
to tear them apart. But the love of an outlaw comes with a price…and even their
passion may not burn bright enough to conquer the coming darkness.

USA Today
bestseller and award-winning novelist Rosanne
Bittner is known as the “Queen of Western Historical Romance” for her
thrilling love stories and historical authenticity. Her epic romances span the
West—and are often based on Rosanne’s personal visits to each setting. She
lives in Coloma, Michigan, with her husband and two sons.